Is it possible to skip setUp() for a specific test in python's unittest?

Question

When I create a unittest.TestCase, I can define a setUp() function that will run before every test in that test case. Is it possible to skip the setUp() for a single specific test?

It's possible that wanting to skip setUp() for a given test is not a good practice. I'm fairly new to unit testing and any suggestion regarding the subject is welcome.

Answer 1

You can use Django's @tag decorator as a criteria to be used in the setUp method to skip if necessary.

# import tag decorator from django.test.utils import tag  # The test which you want to skip setUp @tag('skip_setup') def test_mytest(self):     assert True  def setUp(self):     method = getattr(self,self._testMethodName)     tags = getattr(method,'tags', {})     if 'skip_setup' in tags:         return #setUp skipped     #do_stuff if not skipped 

Besides skipping you can also use tags to do different setups.

P.S. If you are not using Django, the source code for that decorator is really simple:

def tag(*tags):     """     Decorator to add tags to a test class or method.     """     def decorator(obj):         setattr(obj, 'tags', set(tags))         return obj     return decorator